Lexicon
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Lexicon
For field linguists developing a lexicon or bilingual dictionary of a language, data management programs such as Shoebox, askSam, HyperCard, and LinguaLinks are suitable (see section 4.1). MacLex and Multi-Dictionary Formatter are two programs specifically designed for lexical work.
MacLex
Manages dictionary files in SIL's "Standard Format" (used also by Shoebox) with facilities for editing, search and replace, sorting and reversing entries.
- Systems supported: Macintosh
- Current version: 3.2G
- Developer: Bruce Waters, Summer Institute of Linguistics,
Papua New Guinea
- Distributor: ICTS, Attn: Customer Services, Box 248, Waxhaw, NC, 28173, USA, US & Canada orders only: (800) 421-8024, overseas orders: (704) 843-6085, fax (704) 843-6500, e-mail computer_sales_jaars@sil.org.
Ask for NOAM diskette 2.2.3. Also available electronically via the URL below.
- Price: Free if downloaded from URLs below
- Review: Waters, Bruce. 1992. "MacLex: a Macintosh
application for standard format dictionaries", Notes on
Apple Macintosh 1(4):33-36 [Waxhaw, NC: Summer Institute of
Linguistics].
- URLs:
- gopher://gopher.sil.org/11/gopher_root/computing/software/linguistics/data_management/maclex/
- ftp://ftp.sil.org/software/mac/maclex32j.sea_hqx
- http://www.sil.org/ftp/software/mac/maclex32j.sea_hqx
Multi-Dictionary Formatter
Works together with Shoebox and a word processor
such as Microsoft Word to structure, manipulate, format, and print
dictionaries.
- Systems supported: DOS
- Current version: 1.0
- Developer: Summer Institute of Linguistics
- Distributor: ICTS, Attn: Customer Services, Box 248, Waxhaw, NC, 28173, USA, US & Canada orders only: (800) 421-8024, overseas orders: (704) 843-6085, fax (704) 843-6500, e-mail computer_sales_jaars@sil.org.
- Price: $28
- Documentation: Coward, David F. and Charles E. Grimes.
1995. Making Dictionaries: A guide to lexicography and the
Multi-Dictionary Formatter. Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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